Writing in The Mirror, Nolan said that the show's stars can get on each other's nerves. "We've been like a family - a real family. You love them all but some days you walk in and something happens and you can't stand them," she explained. "They get on your nerves and you think, 'Oh, shut up!'.

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"But you know they're always there for you. We know each other so well that if someone walks in you know instantly if they're down - even if they've got a big smile on their face. You say, 'What's wrong with you?'."

Nolan continued: "It's a big bunch of women who work very closely together so at some point there is always going to be some bitching. But we're not back-stabbers.

"I'm sure some of the others will have bitched about me over the years and that's normal - we're women, that's what we do! We don't really mean it, though."

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